Log management

Use /etc/logrotate.conf to customize how often logs are rotated. The default settings for logrotate.conf are:

cat /etc/logrotate.conf
# see "man logrotate" for details
# rotate log files weekly
weekly
# keep 4 weeks worth of backlogs
rotate 4
# create new (empty) log files after rotating old ones
create
# use date as a suffix of the rotated file
dateext
# uncomment this if you want your log files compressed
#compress
# RPM packages drop log rotation information into this directory
include /etc/logrotate.d
# system-specific logs may be also be configured here.

With the above settings:

• Logs are backed up weekly.

• Data upto 4 weeks old is backed up. Any log backup older than four weeks will be deleted.

Caution

Since these logs take up /var space, sufficient space must be allocated to /var partition if it’s created. If /var partition space fills up, control plane might crash.

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